The Art of Communication in a Polarized World

• Main Author: Conway, Kyle (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2020
• Subjects: Communication studies; how to change someone's mind; George Orwell; theory; newspeak; doublethink; government; books about dealing with difficult people; education; semiotics; media; debate; ethics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

People's minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don't. This social and political polarization has re...